Feelings just are. They are neither good nor bad. Emotions are a natural reaction to a situation, a
person, an environment. We cannot not have feelings. The word “bad” when referring to feelings is
a inaccurate description because there is no such thing as a bad feeling. Difficult feelings do ...exist,
yes, and some people feel them more deeply than others but that does not make them bad.
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Let’s take feelings one step further. Feelings stem from experience. “Tracing feelings back” means
tracing an uncomfortable feeling back to the source: an argument, a disappointment, a change,
an event or situation. Doing this allows you keep you feelings in check, helps you learn about your...
triggers and lets you discover unhealthy behavioral patterns you may be in a cycle of repeating.
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27.03.2020
Various health experts on how to manage mental health and well-being during the #COVID19 outbreak.
A Manual for Delivery of PASS by a Non-Specialist Facilitator
PFA for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has several parts that can be used separately or together. It comprises this guide, a small booklet on PFA, and four training modules on PFA. This guide has general information about psychological first aid. It can be used on its own for psycho-education ...and as a reference for the training modules that accompany it. The training modules include instructions, notes, and training resources for the facilitators.
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It aims to enable participants to:
know more about reactions to distress
know what psychological first aid is and what it is not
understand the three action principles of ‘Look, Listen and Link’
have practised providing PFA to someone in distress
have considered comple...x reactions and situations
be aware of the importance of self-care when helping others.
This training module is one of four on psychological first aid, which accompany a set of materials on psychological first aid
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Background: Indian adolescents are presumably exposed to a range of potentially traumatizing and negative life events. However, the knowledge on this area is relatively sparse. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence of exposure to potentially traumatizing and negative life events and t...he occurrence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among a specific sample of Indian adolescents.
Open Journal of Epidemiology, 2013, 3, 12-19 OJEpihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojepi.2013.31003
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